The Flashiest Phone I’ve EVER seen - Honor View20 Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,122 words · ~5 min read
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honor reached out to us to do a sponsored showcase of their new flagship
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for 2019 the honor vue 20. and this
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is a really flashy phone both on the
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outside and on the inside and with heat
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pipe cooling let's get into it
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first things first the screen and wow
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that's a dynamic wallpaper if i ever saw one anyway this is actually the first
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all-screen display with a hole punch style selfie camera that we've had here
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in our studio and you know what i've got to say between the intrusiveness of a giant
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notch and the more gimmicky solutions
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like sliding phones that have a lot of question marks still about their
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reliability this ended up looking like a far more
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reasonable compromise than i initially thought you've still got just about the
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entire status bar to fill up with notifications and meanwhile it has a
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self-reported 91.8 screen to body ratio another cool thing
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is that honor is still treating it like a notch so they're still giving you the
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ability to hide it and putting in virtual bezels when you're watching full
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screen content in landscape mode so
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bottom line until we start to get camera under screen tech over the next
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hopefully year or two this hole punch style is only going to grow in
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popularity and the way honor has done it on the view 20 is pretty cool because
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unlike punching a hole through all of the layers of the display except for the
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glass like samsung does on their a8 honor says that this front camera only
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partially penetrates the screen which is apparently an advantage since not only
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does it make it a bit less of a weak point where your screen is susceptible
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to breaking but each layer that the camera intersects with has the potential
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to leak light onto the camera sensor not
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a bright idea now the camera itself is pretty small
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and unobtrusive it's four and a half millimeters or a little under 3 16 of an
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inch for our friends in the us and a and they were able to get it this small
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using a technique where the liquid crystals in the lcd's neighboring pixels
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will allow light to pass through to the 25 megapixel front camera
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now some of you may have noticed that the vue 20 already comes with a screen
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protector applied to its 6.4 inch
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19.25 by 9 screen but it also comes
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packaged with a basic plastic case which is clear so you can show off this
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crazy glass back now honor has done
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flashy iridescent backings in the past but this is the first time that they've
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used nano optical lithography to give it
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this really funky chevron pattern i think it looks freaking awesome
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taking it off though the sides of the phone are metal giving it a nice premium
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feeling and then around the rest of it you'll find a usb type c a single down
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firing speaker so no stereo sound unfortunately but at least it's
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positioned so that it won't get covered by your hand in landscape mode it's got
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dual nano sims with dual standby support and finally a headphone jack
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nice wrapping up our tour of the outside of the phone we've got the rear cameras so
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the vue 20 is one of the first devices to use sony's imx 586 sensor which
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combines a big half inch cmos with tiny
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0.8 micrometer pixels to deliver a 48
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megapixel camera that's got a ton of zany features from 960fps slow motion
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video to ai clarity mode which takes a bunch of pictures at once then uses all
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of the information to make a brighter more detailed composite to the ability
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to slim a person NVIDIA
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in real time so you can enhance your
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body to get the perfect look anytime anywhere
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james can we try this here's shaping level five
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now all of these ai focus features are of course enabled by the vue 20's chiron
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980 processor which has two npus or
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neural processing units as well as an 8-core CPU and making its first
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commercial appearance the mali g76 GPU
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it also comes with 6 or 8 gigs of 21 33 megahertz RAM and 128 or 256 gigs of
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storage with each tier corresponding to different color options
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the coolest thing about this device though is what honor calls the 9 which
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is a cooling solution that was first showcased at the honor note 10
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conference in china back in december 2018 it's a nine layer thermal design
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including things like a copper alloy shield an f-shaped copper heat pipe and
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a graphene heatsink and it's not the only gamer focused
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feature in the view 20. it also sports
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three wi-fi antennas since the usual two antennas on a handset can be susceptible
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to being blocked by your hands when you're gaming in landscape mode like if
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you think about it your hands are basically made of water rf does not like
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water so the extra antenna is on the back of the phone over by the volume
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button here where you're less likely to cover it and the phone will
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automatically switch between antennas according to which one has the strongest
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signal the aim here was to deliver a more consistent gaming experience and
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you should have lots of time to gain that xp with the vue 20's 4 000 milliamp
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hour battery it's pretty generous actually like we've seen batteries this
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size on gaming phones but a lot of the time they end up being quite thick and
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the mainstream stuff like even the plus size tends to be around the 3 500
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milliamp hour range so that's pretty nice to see
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finally honors purple usb cable means that this phone supports super charging
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so the phone is rated for a full charge in 90 minutes or 55
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in 30 minutes so thanks to honor for sponsoring this
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showcase video you can check out the view 20 and its neat accessories
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including their gaming grip at the link below and thanks to you guys for watching if
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